Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its yeasty youth under moon-shooting Idea Men Paul Hoffman and Robert Maynard Hutchins, the vast Ford Foundation ($2.7 billion in current assets) has grown more staid. Latest evidence: the appointment of Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, to succeed H. Rowan Gaither Jr. as board chairman. McCloy, 63, will take over in December without leaving his post as board chairman of the Chase Manhattan
...fantasies, it ,lso contained a lot of down-to-earth ommon sense. The marriage bed, its uthor proclaimed, was for pleasure as veil as procreation. The wife can and hould be a full partner, allowed to take he initiative and to enjoy fulfillment, way with the Victorian idea that a nice" woman should be the passive, un complaining object of her husband's bestial libidinous urges...
...Eliot House is using its Ford money primarily to finance a series of small Senior luncheons with outstanding guests," Master John H. Finley, Jr. '25 said yesterday. "We have avoided the idea of putting on forums," he added. "There are relatively too many forums in the College...
...also too early to guess where the parking area will be, Curry said, and added that "we have no idea whether or not a private group would build...
Gerald Holton, associate professor of Physics and of General Education, stressed the non-professional nature of Nat. Sci. 2. "The idea of a general education course is that it is self-contained. All departmental courses like Bio. 1 and Physics 1 lead to increased specialization and learning," he said...